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“We don’t have a problem with information — we have an information overload,” said Lorelei Kelly, who convened the panel at the New America Foundation to discuss the impact of technology on Congressional policy debates.

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We now have evaluations from the CBO and two nonpartisan groups: the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) and the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative. They all point in the same direction.

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Nudging it along and pulling it all together has been Maya MacGuineas, who for a decade has been sounding the deficit alarm from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Last week, the group, calling itself Fix the Debt, went public at a news ...

The news that minority babies make up a majority of all births in the United States should be a wake-up call. This shift to a majority-minority population has been taking place for years, while the way minorities are educated in our public schools has stayed the same. It’s time to think about next-generation America — a young, unprecedentedly diverse group with different needs, and strengths, from generations past.

On Sunday morning, she and her boyfriend, Dan Meredith, a 30-year-old journalist, painted and stenciled six 8-by-4 plywood boards with chalkboard paint and installed them at the construction site without permission. Before they left, they decided to ...

Jones was speaking at a New America Foundation panel discussion titled “Is It Time to Re-Regulate America’s Broken Airline System?” The debate revolved around a recent article in the Washington Monthly by Philip Longman and Lina Khan, who argued that more and more regions are finding themselves isolated as airlines merge, consolidate, and prune their less-profitable hubs and routes.

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He is CNN?s national security analyst and a director of the New America Foundation. Bergen has held teaching positions at Harvard and at Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of Oxford. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, ...

IN JULY, THE interest rate on certain federal student loans will double, to 6.8 percent. Who could want that? Not President Obama or Mitt Romney, both of whom railed against the scheduled increase last week. And not Senate Democrats or House Republicans, who have competing plans for preventing the hike. The only question in Washington seems to be whether the two sides will agree on how to pay for extending the lower rate for a year.

We hope they don’t.

“Taken together,” writes the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, “these policies would reduce ten-year deficits by over $6.8 trillion relative to realistic current policy projections — enough to put the debt on a sharp downward path.”

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The New America Foundation has launched the California Civic Information Project (CCIP), which aims to bring better technology and policy to local governments in the state. “The intersection of technology, policy and civic engagement is increasingly central to making local governments work for everyone,” said Alissa Black, CCIP’s director, in a statement.